Halsin won't leave Last Light Inn to go to the lakeshore

[LainDarko]

I've seen other people having similar problems but not quite like the issue I'm having, and the fixes they've used have not worked for me.

I went to the House of Healing and got the lute, and brought it back to Last Light Inn to wake up Art. After I did this, Halsin tells me to go meet him at the lakeshore - but he just stays standing in the corner of the room where Art was asleep. I can't even initiate dialogue with him. He also doesn't show up at camp when I return to camp.

I've tried going back to the save before I initiate the scene where I wake up Art and redoing the scene, but the same exact thing happens. I've also tried reloading the game, taking a long rest, fast traveling to the Last Light Inn waypoint, and none of those things have worked either.

Does anyone know any other fixes I can try?? This is my first time encountering a bug in a game that I couldn't fix on my own and I'm at a loss...

[Chumplumps]

Just had the same issue. Might've been a result of the recent update trying to fix the other Halsin bug/s? Hopefully that means this new one will start popping up enough for Larian to notice things still need tweaking. Outside of that I'll keep an eye out for any other fixes.

[Plad]

Having the same problem! Pushing around Halsin does nothing, can’t even talk to him anymore after showing the lute to Art

[dismay]

In the same boat. He can be killed and looted, but doesn't respond to anything else.

[minnasbagsofholding]

having the exact same problem! if i approach him, his name will appear at the top of my screen, and his context menu allows me to attack/pickpocket/etc., but i can't even talk to him. nothing i've tried has been able to fix it.

[Chumplumps]

I'm maybe getting somewhere? By travelling back to an area in act 1 and then travelling back to the inn, I managed to get Halsin to disappear from the inn and reappear in my camp. After leaving camp he popped back up in the inn, this time in a different spot where I could talk to him (but he still wouldn't go to the shore.) At one point during this I got the original mumbling dialogue from Art to trigger, but when I tried to pick-pocket his lute he returned to being sane again and nothing else happened. I'm gonna keep messing around and trying the other fixes at different points.

[pawches]

I'm having the same problem, I tried what chumplumps described a few days ago but it hasn't amounted to anything. Also tried clearing level cache but it didnt do anything. I think the only way to fix this will be to reload an older save (which sucks since I have hours and hours of gameplay since then). I also submitted a bug report to Larian

[Chumplumps]

Alright so the bug's been resolved on my end so I figure they patched it? At first it looked like completing the Shar stuff fixed it, but after reloading an earlier broken save it was fixed there as well. If it still isn't working, try completing the Temple of Shar.

[LithiumThunder]

Originally posted by Chumplumps:

Alright so the bug's been resolved on my end so I figure they patched it? At first it looked like completing the Shar stuff fixed it, but after reloading an earlier broken save it was fixed there as well. If it still isn't working, try completing the Temple of Shar.

Unfortunately I don't think it's patched, as I ran into this exact issue yesterday.

For me, Halsin just stands outside the door of the room Art is in, in the middle of Last Light Inn. He does this before and after I play the lute or even if I try the workaround of killing Art and speaking with his corpse get the info about Thaniel and lavender.

He still appears in all the cutscenes with Art, and I can do the trick to travel back to Act I to get him to appear in camp, but anytime I travel again or long rest, either before or after getting Art to reveal info about Thaniel, Halsin is back standing outside the door in Last Light and won't move to the lakeshore.

In my case, I have sneaking suspicion he bugged out due the order I played some things.

I had already progressed the quest up to the point of needing to find the lute, but I hadn't ever gone to the Mountain Pass yet, so I decide to go from the Shadow-Cursed Lands to go do that and the Creche. When I traveled to the Mountain Pass, I was randomly (or so I thought) given a backpack, which I am now guessing was Halsin's. (I also get one every time I travel between Act I & II areas now, so free backpacks, I guess lol).

What is even weirder is, at one point after I had gone back to the Mountain Pass, Halsin appeared in camp, so I tried talking to him. When I did, the dialogue cutscene warped back to him at Art's bedside, with stuff rendering and derendering all crazy. I think a combination of travelling back to Act I and possibly triggering this may have somehow glitched him out.

I've tried to do different combinations of fast travelling, resting, killing Art, shoving Halsin, etc. but nothing has worked. I have not done the Temple of Shar yet, so I'll give that a shot. I've seen others with bugs on this quest also say doing Moonrise & taking Act II up to the end "unbugs" Halsin sometimes, too.

[minnasbagsofholding]

i submitted a bug report when i first had the issue, and i just got a response back from larian! they said it's a known issue and should be fixed in an upcoming patch, so hopefully it's resolved soon!

[angel.mp3]

I've got the same bug, I haven't tried the Temple of Shar yet as I haven't gotten that far but I'll try it next. I've only tried shoving him and polymorphing him, both worked but I can't talk to him. He stands just outside the room, he appeared at the bedside when I talked to Art but went right back after. I forget how but he did show up back at camp once, but when I talked to him it launched us back to Last Light Inn and everything rendered all weird from it.

[CasComp]

Has anyone been able to get him unstuck besides continuing the story til after you have almost reached the end of Act 2 since the new patch dropped? Or are we doomed to still struggle with this?

[LithiumThunder]

Originally posted by LithiumThunder:

Unfortunately I don't think it's patched, as I ran into this exact issue yesterday.

For me, Halsin just stands outside the door of the room Art is in, in the middle of Last Light Inn. He does this before and after I play the lute or even if I try the workaround of killing Art and speaking with his corpse get the info about Thaniel and lavender.

He still appears in all the cutscenes with Art, and I can do the trick to travel back to Act I to get him to appear in camp, but anytime I travel again or long rest, either before or after getting Art to reveal info about Thaniel, Halsin is back standing outside the door in Last Light and won't move to the lakeshore.

In my case, I have sneaking suspicion he bugged out due the order I played some things.

I had already progressed the quest up to the point of needing to find the lute, but I hadn't ever gone to the Mountain Pass yet, so I decide to go from the Shadow-Cursed Lands to go do that and the Creche. When I traveled to the Mountain Pass, I was randomly (or so I thought) given a backpack, which I am now guessing was Halsin's. (I also get one every time I travel between Act I & II areas now, so free backpacks, I guess lol).

What is even weirder is, at one point after I had gone back to the Mountain Pass, Halsin appeared in camp, so I tried talking to him. When I did, the dialogue cutscene warped back to him at Art's bedside, with stuff rendering and derendering all crazy. I think a combination of travelling back to Act I and possibly triggering this may have somehow glitched him out.

I've tried to do different combinations of fast travelling, resting, killing Art, shoving Halsin, etc. but nothing has worked. I have not done the Temple of Shar yet, so I'll give that a shot. I've seen others with bugs on this quest also say doing Moonrise & taking Act II up to the end "unbugs" Halsin sometimes, too.

I hopped back into the game after Patch #5. Halsin was still stuck in the Last Light Inn, not moving. I went ahead and completed the Gauntlet of Shar, but still no luck. He is still just standing there with me unable to talk to him.

Hoping as I get to the end of Act 2 it will fix itself as I've seen some others mention, but can't help but wonder if it's just going to be bugged the rest of this playthrough...

[sidej.rex]

Same issue here, I try some guides but nothing really happen, he is still in the door of the room with the mision, not responding...

[Gwandad]

Same problem for me. Halsin is just standing in the inn. I have tried camping in the inn as others have suggested and then leaving camp, but Halsin doesn't come to the camp and back in the inn he is just standing in the same place (in the main hall). I have tried various other things but he remains in NPC limbo.

[Crimson]

Originally posted by LainDarko:

I've seen other people having similar problems but not quite like the issue I'm having, and the fixes they've used have not worked for me.

I went to the House of Healing and got the lute, and brought it back to Last Light Inn to wake up Art. After I did this, Halsin tells me to go meet him at the lakeshore - but he just stays standing in the corner of the room where Art was asleep. I can't even initiate dialogue with him. He also doesn't show up at camp when I return to camp.

I've tried going back to the save before I initiate the scene where I wake up Art and redoing the scene, but the same exact thing happens. I've also tried reloading the game, taking a long rest, fast traveling to the Last Light Inn waypoint, and none of those things have worked either.

Does anyone know any other fixes I can try?? This is my first time encountering a bug in a game that I couldn't fix on my own and I'm at a loss...

For anyone having this problem save and reload it fixed it for me